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Last week we reported that a crowdfunded charging station called POP could be back on track thanks to a change in Apple's accessory guidelines, and now the company behind the device has confirmed it will be moving forward with production. In a post on the product's Kickstarter page, Edison...

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I’ve been somewhat following the whole Facebook privacy debacle over the last few weeks with some interest. The very passioned outcry I’ve seen from so many is something I didn’t expect. I agree that any social network that offer layers of both public and private sharing needs to adhere to...

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The CEO of MyList, a startup with a Facebook app for assembling Pinterest-like collections of interesting items, says Facebook is playing catchup to his company with its new "Want" buttons and "Collections" feature. That's brave talk for a company whose product may have just been made obsolete by the very...

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A little over a year ago, I asked how long it would be until we had a full, professional quality feature film filmed entirely with smartphones. This one doesn't completely qualify, but it is quite interesting. Ross Pruden points our attention to the story of This Is Not A Film,...

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Do you consider yourself a creative thinker with great ideas? Are you a person with a non-technical background? Are you looking for someone technical who can make your brilliant idea come true? Then this post is for you. Maybe it’s because of my own non-technical background, maybe it’s because...

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Following Tim Cook's meetings with China's Executive Vice-Premier Li Keqiang earlier this week, the Apple CEO took a trip to Zhengzhou to check out the new Foxconn manufacturing facility and its iPhone production line. The plant, located in the Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park, is the world's largest smartphone production...

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The New York Times is supporting the Associated Press in a controversial copyright case against Meltwater, a service that monitors the news and reproduces headlines and story summaries for its clients. The case pits major media outlets who invest in news against technology advocates who fear the case will suppress...

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Editor’s note: Steve Patterson is a writer with 20 years of experience working with startups in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. A contributor to organizations such as Network World, MHT, Byte and RH, he is interested in the convergence of mobile and cloud. Follow him on Twitter. Boston-based startup...

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Shareholder meetings in normal circumstances are rather boring affairs for those not interested in the nuances of corporate governance. But when Apple holds its annual meeting on Thursday, there will be issues besides election of board members and potential dividends on people’s minds. Two former iPhone factory workers in China,...

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For the past few months the headlines have been dominated by two huge movie piracy related cases. Barely a week goes by without updates on the Megaupload case, which is almost certainly the biggest copyright infringement lawsuit the world has ever seen. Then, with less fanfare but with some seriously...

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We've received an early transcript of the episode of This American Life which will air this evening at 8:00PM ET entitled "Retraction." The episode features Mike Daisey, whose previous appearance on TAL was a dramatic monologue he has been performing since 2010 about workers at the Chinese factory which...

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You live a fast-paced life, and you don't have time to stop your high-speed internet surfing just to check up on Suzie's latest Facebook update. Mozilla understands your plight, digital denizen, and its "Social API" is here to help -- Firefox browser users can beta test Facebook's Messenger functionality...

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If it is to be true to its name, the World Wide Web ought to reflect the planet's full cultural and linguistic diversity. Currently, though, many sites and tools remain optimized for English and its character set, although that's gradually changing as other countries with different languages and writing...

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Last Friday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned employees from working remotely. Human resources boss Jackie Reses sent out a memo telling all remote employees that, by June, they needed to be working in Yahoo offices. This upset many employees - mothers in particular. According to All Things D's Kara Swisher, some of these are...

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:( (Photo: Screencap) Today, in Streisand Effect stories: Apple has booted the provocative game Sweatshop from its App Store. If that sounds like an offensive concept for a casual game, it’s deliberate: It’s designed to get you thinking about where the awful system that produces consumer goods. And according to...

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Last Sunday, February 14th was the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. It is also the beginning of the Chinese Spring Festival, with celebrations and observations by ethnic Chinese and others around the world, welcoming in the Year of the Tiger. Conservationists are hoping to capitalize on the...

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There's a guy in NY, Clark Stoekley, who apparently owns a white panel van that he's painted with the Wikileaks logo to raise awareness for the plight of Bradley Manning (though he has no other connection to Manning or Wikileaks). There's a lot more info on the truck on his...

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The Attwater's prairie chicken, one of the more charismatic species listed under the act. Fish and Wildlife Service The ubiquitous image of a lone polar bear lumbering across melting sheets of ice has come to represent the plight of endangered species everywhere. Surprisingly, despite the symbolic role that this...

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Hey there, fellow Betabeaters. My name is Jessica, and I'm excited to announce that I've joined the Betabeat team as a full-time staff writer and reporter. Previously, I was a blogger for 10,000 Words and have written for a bunch of other publications. I currently live in San Francisco (a.k.a....

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Like Dr. Frankenstein tinkering around in his labs, Google has created a monster. And now that monster is running amok, terrorizing the world and, maybe, threatening the livelihood of its creator. Google, through its Android operating system and favorable partnership, has enabled Samsung to become the most dominant smartphone maker...

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Travelers face a dilemma: they'll often leave a phone in airplane mode to avoid expensive roaming rates or a foreign SIM, but staying offline can break the translation services that might prove vital in a strange land. Google must have heard their plight, as a new version of Google...

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While more people than ever before are sharing files online, one would be hard pressed (SOPA aside) to find a balance of positive and inspiring news stories in the file-sharing space last year. Sure, many of the bigger public sites (Pirate Bay, Torrentz, KickAss, isoHunt, ExtraTorrent etc) continue to do...

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Brandon Keller and Tyler Simpson discuss the SteadyOrbit camera dolly on Kickstarter Kickstarter is radically changing the way entrepreneurs think about raising money for their ideas. And in recent days we’ve seen some veterans of the Seattle gaming community take advantage of the crowdfunding sensation to great success. But Kickstarter...

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The formless hacktivist collective Anonymous, which often hits the news for hacking governments, big corporations, and other websites to champion its causes, has taken to Twitter to highlight the mistreatment of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma. "Operation Rohingya" began on Sunday as an effort to bring the plight of...

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Olympus helped conquer shakycam videos first in the OM-D, but not everyone has $1,300 to throw at a high-end mirrorless body. It's clearly aware of our plight in launching the SH-50 iHS at CES. Despite the 16-megapixel camera's PEN-like looks, it sits squarely in the point-and-shoot category with a...

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Being blind is tough, but buying stuff on the web makes it so much tougher. That’s the plight for a lot of disabled folk, who say that online shopping sites aren’t doing a great job of providing accessibility options to those who need them, reports the Wall Street Journal....

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The racism that saw a picture of a light-skinned girl and her 'brown' mother cause such controversy is not confined to MexicoWhat do you picture when you hear the words "Mexican beggar child"? Is the child blond? Green-eyed? Does she have light skin?A Mexican family was recently at the centre...

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Foxconn seems to be happy about the news late last week that Mike Daisy’s Monologue about his Foxconn ‘findings’ was mostly fabricated from news reports. In a statement to Businessweek, Louis Woo, spokesman for Taipei-based Foxconn said “I am happy that the truth prevails, I am glad that Mike Daisey’s lies were exposed....

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Bees are dying in record numbers. Why? And what are we doing to stop it? By Ryan Bradley, senior editor FORTUNE -- We need bees. You like apples? Almonds? Onions? How about blueberries or cherries or, heck, any flowering fruit out there--to get the fruit you need the flower pollinated;...

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The latest participants in the carriage dispute dance are DirecTV and Viacom, with the two companies attempting to reach a new agreement before their existing one expires tonight. If they don't, the network's 26 channels (MTV, BET, VH1, Spike TV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon etc.) could be cut off at...